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Nawab Sadr Yar Jang Bahadur Habibu'r-Rahman Khan Sher• wani gave a brief account of the establishment of the Anjuman-i-Taraqqt• i-Urdu in his presidential address since its inception in 1903 at Delhi, when Maulana Shibli Nu'rnani was selected its first Hon. Secretary.
This biography will ever remain a monumental work in Urdu literature, for it may also be read with interest as a history ofthe literary, educational, religious, and political activitiesof the Muslims of India from the post-Mutiny period till the second decade of the twentieth century A.
. : The monthly journal of the Shibli Academy, the Ma' arif has, in a series of much appreciated articles, been making a critical study of the book Tarikh-i-Afkar-wa' -Siyiisiyiit-i~lslami (History of Islamic Politics and Thoughts) by A.
Other noteworthy articles of the Ma'arif, published during the last three months are the following: (1) Imam Abul-Ijasan Ash'ari: It deals with the life and the works of the well-known Ash'arite leader of the third century A.
The Imam did not really differ from the Sunni school of theology, (2) Tib-e-Firishta: This article throws light on one of the neglected works of the famous historian of the Muslim period of India, namely, Muhammad Qasim .
H. and Diwan Mun'am of Tajawar (Alwar State), compiled by Shah Muhammad Ashraf Mun'am at about the same period, may be said to be the oldest works in Urdu literature, (4) Why there is· Sadness in Life : It is a philosophical study of life in the light of the· Holy Qur'an.